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Tell me something, the West, especially the US just NEEDS a political enemy right? First you have got the ex-USSR and now China. I personally is from Hong Kong, and I get to see a lot of things first hand. I spent a year studying in the US and it really surprised me that China got such a bad stereotype, definitely not helped by your local Press. Bad things always got colourfully exaggerated many times over and put on the front page, good things rarely if ever got mentioned. Beware that what you see on the news might not be the whole picture.

Freedom and human rights? While I agree that China could make use of a better government system, it seems rather strange that people not even living in the country is pushing for a change harder than the Chinese themselves. In any case it is slowly changing anyway. Has it ever occured to you that the current batch of key decision makers is totally different from the one in 1989? Why do you think this is so? Don't expect everything to change over-night though, because it can't.

I have no idea why you guys living half-way around the world always seem to care about the "human rights" or "freedom" in China, I hope it is not an excuse to bannish the Chinese people (put it frankly, that is called racism). It is best to leave them to decide their own future. Trying to alienate China or pushing it into doing things the Western way is really counter-productive, it is going to do nothing but bring anger from the Chinese people. Take the latest 2008 Olympic decision for example, human rights is really not an excuse for not letting Beijing to host the Game. What's more important is, do the local people want the Game? I can tell you the answer is an affirmative 'yes'.